Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A staircase leading to the dormitory of a remote boarding school usually has 28 stairs, but every so often there appears to be 29. When someone steps on the mysterious extra stair, the horror begins REVIEW: The third installment in the Korean Whispering Corridors horror franchise once again takes us to the bitterly competitive world of …
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Film Review: Mecanix (2003)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Mecanix tells the story of the last human beings who are forced to be the slaves of the strange creatures that rule this strange world.There is only one thing these beasts fear – the embryo of the universe : the origin of everything. The only hope that the humans have is to free themselves from this …
Read More »Film Review: Prey (short film) (2003)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Master cake decorater and all-round family man, John (Bub) Morris, has a secret. He likes to hunt and stalk his prey. Woman. REVIEW: Prey is a short film written and directed by Adam Mason (see also Broken, The Devil’s Chair, and Hangman, among others), his second project after his 2001 debut, Dust. This is a short …
Read More »Film Review: Dreamcatcher (2003)
SYNOPSIS: Guys who’ve been friends since childhood go on a camping trip that swirls out of control when aliens crash the camp. These aren’t your average friends though, there are special powers afoot. Can they use these to fight the monsters though, that is the question. REVIEW: Can “Dreamcatcher” actually suck as horror like most the internet says? I say …
Read More »Film Review: Beyond Re-Animator (2003)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Everyone’s favorite mad scientist Herbert West is currently in jail after having state’s evidence turned against him by his former assistant, Dan Cain. While being led away, some re-agent falls from his pocket where it is picked up by a young man that was camping nearby. The young man find Herbert down in his jail cell …
Read More »Film Review: The Last Coffin (Saigo no Hitsugi) (2003)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In the movie, a strange crossword puzzle starts circulating amongst Chiri’s (Rena Komine) friends, and they soon begin getting murdered one by one in horrifying ways. At night, Chiri can seemingly view their deaths in her dreams, causing her to lose sleep. Depressed and confused, she wanders into an old orphanage where she spent her childhood …
Read More »Film Review: Willard (2003)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Eccentric loner Willard Stiles befriends a rat trapped in his basement, beginning a journey of revenge and survival that may ultimate cost more than just Willard’s sanity. REVIEW: Writer/Director: Glen Morgan Starring: Crispin Glover, R. Lee Ermey, Laura Harring, Jackie Burroughs Willard (2003) is the remake of the cult classic rat-attack feature Willard from 1971. Like …
Read More »Film Review: Save the Green Planet! (Jigureul jikyeora!) (2003)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Byeong-gu believes that the world is on the verge of an alien invasion, and sets out to save the world REVIEW: Save the Green Planet! Is a horror/thriller/sci-fi hybrid by the writer-director Joon-Hwan Jang. While these three genres crossover each other in regular intervals with variable degrees of success, you would be hard pressed to find …
Read More »Film Review: Open Water (2003)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Based on the true story of two scuba divers accidentally stranded in shark infested waters after their tour boat has left. REVIEW: Open Water is a 2003 horror movie shot on a shoe-string budget about the true story of Tom and Eileen Lonergan, a vacationing couple that went scuba diving in 1998 in the Bahamas and were …
Read More »Film Review: Twentynine Palms (2003)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: David, an independent photographer, and Katia, an unemployed woman, leave Los Angeles, en route to the southern California desert, where they search a natural set to use as a backdrop for a magazine photo shoot. They find a motel in the town of Twentynine Palms and spend their days in their sport-utility vehicle, discovering the …
Read More »Film Review: The Suicide Manual (2003)
SYNOPSIS: After the group suicide of four people, journalists Yuu and Rie investigate the reasons behind an endless cycle of suicides, blamed on an infamous Suicide Manual, hidden in a tag-less DVD disk. Said manual is shot in an infomercial fashion, with examples of the best methods to kill yourself and demonstrations by real people. When investigating further, Yuu and …
Read More »Film Review: The Park (Chow lok yuen) (2003)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An amusement park reopens after a deadly accident fourteen years prior. But although the park is back in business, that doesn’t mean it’s safe, and when a young boy goes missing, a group of his friends set out to find him. REVIEW: I live in a pretty small town that’s only notable for two things: first, …
Read More »Film Review: Necro Files 2: Lust Never Dies (2003)
SYNOPSIS: Murder runs deep in the Logan family. The brother of the maniac (turned zombie) in THE NECRO FILES becomes a crazed cannibal rapist and unwittingly reanimates his evil brother’s corpse as a flesh-eating zombie rapist! Together, the pair go on a berserk killing spree in the streets of Seattle! Detectives Sloane and Manners investigate the grisly murders in this …
Read More »Film Review: Into the Mirror (Geoul sokeuro) (2003)
SYNOPSIS: An ex-cop, now working as a security guard in a shopping mall, tries to uncover the secret behind a series of mysterious deaths linked to mirrors. REVIEW: For centuries mirrors have featured in folklore all around the world. Starting off with stories of deep dark ponds that would steal the soul of whoever dared to stare in to them …
Read More »Film Review: House of the Dead (2003)
SYNOPSIS: A group of college students travel to a mysterious island to attend a rave, which is soon taken over by bloodthirsty zombies. REVIEW: House of the Dead was one of the first video game adaptations that was directed by Uwe Boll, and it was the first film that really brought him him attention to mainstream American audiences. However, the …
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